Daniela Weber
Research Scholar
Environment Science
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Austria
Biography
Daniela Weber is a mathematician and statistician. She joined the World Population Program (POP) in 2010, where she currently works with the Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project on developing new measures of aging as an alternative to chronological age. Dr. Weber graduated in technical mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology in 2005 and in 2012, she graduated in statistics at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2015 with the dissertation "An International Perspective on Aging and Cognitive Decline". Her research focuses on aging and health, whereas the international perspective is of particular interest to her. Dr. Weber develops new measures of aging and investigates socioeconomic and behavioral determinants of cognitive as well as physical aging.
Research Interest
World Population
Publications
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Sanderson WC, Scherbov S, Weber D, & Bordone V (2016). Combined Measures of Upper and Lower Body Strength and Subgroup Differences in Subsequent Survival Among the Older Population of England. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-008
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Loichinger E & Weber D (2016). Trends in Working Life Expectancy in Europe. Journal of Aging and Health 28 (7): 1194-1213
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Weber D, Dekhtyar S, & Herlitz A (2016). The Flynn effect in Europe – Effects of sex and region. Intelligence 60: 39-45
